ASARECA @25: Celebrating decades of Coordinating Collaborative Agricultural Research for Development (1994-2019). Abridged Version

The  Association  for  Strengthening  Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central  Africa  (ASARECA)  is  a  not-for-profit  inter-governmental  sub-regional    organization.    ASARECA    comprises  12  member  countries: Burundi,  the  Democratic  Republic of  Congo,  Eritrea,  Ethiopia,  Kenya,  Madagascar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda,     South     Sudan,     Sudan,     Tanzania and Uganda.ASARECA was established in 1994 by ten member States  represented  by  their  National  Agricultural  Research     Institutes     (NARIs)     following     the     approval  of  the  Framework  For  Action  (FFA)  for  agricultural research in Eastern and Central Africa by  the  Special  Programme  for  Africa  Agricultural  Research (SPAAR). The original ten member States included Burundi, Democratic  Republic  of  Congo,  Eritrea,  Ethiopia,  Kenya,   Madagascar,   Rwanda,   Sudan,   Tanzania   and  Uganda.  The  membership  has  since  grown  to  12  following  the  admission  of  South  Sudan  and  Republic  of  the  Congo  in  2011  and  2019  respectively